I've started to get serious about saving money on my grocery bill again, and I just have to tell you about my trip to the grocery store this week.  Lowes Foods had a coupon in the Sunday paper for Triple Coupons on Sun. - Tues. of this week.  You had to spend at least $35, and they would triple 20 coupons of 99 cents or less, and double any over the limit of 20. 

I spent about an hour going through the store sales flyer and pulling coupons from my file, and then headed to the store on Monday morning.  The total bill before Rewards Card and coupon savings was $109.99, and I spent $42.55. Woo hoo!    

I started to declutter my kitchen this week.  This is a MAJOR area of ..... shall we say... challenge?... for me.  I am a pack rat.  So I started with my tupperware cabinet ( actually 2 cabinets ) and pulled everything out.  There was so much stuff crammed in there that it was hard to find things and to put things away neatly.  So I decided that for everthing I put back into the cabinet, I would put one thing in the Give Away bag.  I started by putting away the " I love this and use it all the time" pieces, and got rid of the " I can't remember the last time I used this" ones. It got harder with pieces that were " I sometimes use these".  But how many storage containers do I really need?  Or how many mixing bowls?  I filled 2 whole tall kitchen garbage bags with plastic ware that I will take to Goodwill. And the cabinets look so much better. I can actually get to the things I want and things don't fall out every time I open the door.  Ahhhh

I'll let you know what I tackle tomorrow ( I haven't decided yet).

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